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Interests => Health & Fitness => Topic started by: RobJohnson on June 14, 2012, 10:24:56 PM
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Philadelphia took the top spot from New York City, which held the title for two years.
The list (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/philadelphia-takes-top-spot-annual-120000637.html)
Has anyone been bit by a bed bug? As a young child I just thought it was quirkly slang that my Grandma Slater used to say "don't let the bed bugs bite."
I did learn to stay away from girls that itched a lot "down low." :rofl:
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It must be too hot in Las Vegas for bed bugs.
I try not to say, "Sleep tight and don't let the beg bugs bite" to my daughter because she will say, "the bug? the bug come bite?" all night long.
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It must be too hot in Las Vegas for bed bugs.
I try not to say, "Sleep tight and don't let the beg bugs bite" to my daughter because she will say, "the bug? the bug come bite?" all night long.
We have clean sheets in Vegas! :rant:
I know a retired guy that worked for a local hotel that had to take in residents from a town that was without power for a few days during an ice store. Mostly older farmers. The rooms ended up with a smell of pig manure and they had to toss mattresses due to a bed bug outbreak. This was rural Illinois.
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I'm surprised that no Florida city made the list, nor St Louis. That list is sort of surprising.
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I'm surprised that no Florida city made the list, nor St Louis. That list is sort of surprising.
Not really, how do you suppose every one of those citys vote, D or R.
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I read someplace else the reason bed bugs are making a comeback are due to the eco-friendly pest controls used.
More With Pics (http://realestate.yahoo.com/news/6-household-pests-you-don-t-want-to-know.html?page=3)
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I'm currently reading a book about the bubonic plague. Biting bugs creep me out!
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There is a program on TV called "Infested" Has anyone here seen it? The episodes are about what the title suggests, people's homes that are infested. I have watched episodes covering cock roaches (of course) Brown Recluse spiders, rats, snakes, scorpions, bat's and last but not least, bed bugs. They are disgusting and vile creatures of the highest order, and hard as hell to get rid of. If memory serves they mentioned in the show that pesticides were not very effective in dealing with them. They did say that they were very sensitive to high temperature and if you could figure out how to get the temperature up to 140 degrees F or above, it would kill every bed bug including the eggs. I haven't watched this show in quite a while. I was finding that for some reason it was totally freaking me out and making me very uncomfortable. I don't have any phobia's or unreasonable fear of anything I can think of. I have no explanation for why the show affected me the way it did.
The exterminator in the show must have had it figured it out, he sort of sealed up the house and then he used big ass heaters to drive the temperature up to the required level. Shazamm! Wham Bam Thank you maam....Dead bed bugs as far as the eye could see. It was a beautiful sight to behold. These gross, disgusting, vile, revolting blood sucking parasites that I am convinced come directly from Satan himself, were dead, dead, dead...Yes! oh yes! :rant: Sorry, I got carried away. :yahoo: I don't mind bugs but I detest blood sucking parasites. Anyway, mission accomplished. :cheersmate:
Disclaimer: Due to the fact that I suffer from a particular affliction that renders my memory almost useless at times, the temperature range I made reference to may not be accurate. Please don't go out and wager any large sums of money based on anything I post,OK? :rotf:
http://animal.discovery.com/tv/infested/
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There is a program on TV called "Infested" Has anyone here seen it? The episodes are about what the title suggests, people's homes that are infested. I have watched episodes covering cock roaches (of course) Brown Recluse spiders, rats, snakes, scorpions, bat's and last but not least, bed bugs. They are disgusting and vile creatures of the highest order, and hard as hell to get rid of. If memory serves they mentioned in the show that pesticides were not very effective in dealing with them. They did say that they were very sensitive to high temperature and if you could figure out how to get the temperature up to 140 degrees F or above, it would kill every bed bug including the eggs. I haven't watched this show in quite a while. I was finding that for some reason it was totally freaking me out and making me very uncomfortable. I don't have any phobia's or unreasonable fear of anything I can think of. I have no explanation for why the show affected me the way it did.
The exterminator in the show must have had it figured it out, he sort of sealed up the house and then he used big ass heaters to drive the temperature up to the required level. Shazamm! Wham Bam Thank you maam....Dead bed bugs as far as the eye could see. It was a beautiful sight to behold. These gross, disgusting, vile, revolting blood sucking parasites that I am convinced come directly from Satan himself, were dead, dead, dead...Yes! oh yes! :rant: Sorry, I got carried away. :yahoo: I don't mind bugs but I detest blood sucking parasites. Anyway, mission accomplished. :cheersmate:
Disclaimer: Due to the fact that I suffer from a particular affliction that renders my memory almost useless at times, the temperature range I made reference to may not be accurate. Please don't go out and wager any large sums of money based on anything I post,OK? :rotf:
http://animal.discovery.com/tv/infested/
Great, I was just getting ready to get into bed...lol :thatsright: :banghead: :hammer: :rotf: :argh: :rant:
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I see Washington DC only made it to #6 on the list.
I guess they didn't count the giant, government, bloodsucking kind of bed bugs.
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I see Washington DC only made it to #6 on the list.
I guess they didn't count the giant, government, bloodsucking kind of bed bugs.
Read somewhere that when having a new mattrice delivered to check the truck first before having the new mattrice brought in. Reason-------The delivery people pick up old mattresses and if they come in contact with your new one chances are if one of the old is infested the bugs can hop onto your new one.
I have also been told that when you change your sheets to take a steam iron and on high heat to iron the mattress before putting on clean sheets.
Unfortunately it is not just beds the bugs infest. The monsters can get into your clothing, so you get dressed up and head down town to one of those UP scale department stores, find a $400.00 dress, take it into the changing room and try it on. Meanwhile a bug from your clothing jumps off your clothing onto the expensive dress. So you do not like the fit and take it back to the rack. Next person that tries on that garment and buys it will be bringing home Your bugs to their house. Or it could be this is how you got bed bugs in the first place.
Got to figure these buggers got into your house some how, they don't just fly in the window.
I do not know if those sonic plug in bug and rodent repellent devices work on bed bugs, if the scientists can figure out a way to make them work on bed bugs, they will have a billion dollars in sales the first 3 months.
Now dag nab it after this topic, I am off to iron my mattress.